Bessie Makris prepares these lists for
AAR. As with
all of our volunteer staff, here's a bit about her, in her own
words:

My two greatest interests (some would say obsessions) are
books of all kinds and movies. I satisfy one by working as a
Librarian (in
Fort Wayne, Indiana), haunting bookstores, and constantly
reading and the
other by volunteering with a local cinema group. My interest in
the romance
genre is long standing - I discovered Georgette Heyer in April,
1972 and
series romances during the summer of 1985. Before Heyer, I read
a lot of
historical novels but was never quite sure what I was looking
for. After
Heyer, I knew it was humor and romance combined with interesting
characters
in a historically accurate setting and I have been trying to
recapture that
reading experience ever since. I also read Mysteries, a little
Science
Fiction and graphic novels. I collect pop-up books and morters
and pestles.